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These Object commands edited the document even when nothing changed, so the call recorded an undo step, emptied Redo and marked the document modified: - object.align, object.distributeSpacing and object.distribute (three or more objects) when no object moves. With one object selected, Object › Align aligns it to its own bounds, so it recorded a step every time. Calls on objects that were already aligned or evenly spaced also recorded a step, including objects that an earlier Align or Distribute left a rounding error away from the position the next call computes. - Move, Rotate, Scale, Shear, Transform and Nudge by an identity transform without a copy, Transform Again after one, Set Bounds with the current position and size, and a Selection tool drag that ends where it started. - Nudge by 0 with anchors direct-selected or with only ruler guides selected, and Transform with nothing selected or with ids that name no object, with or without a copy. - Bring to Front and Bring Forward on objects already in front, Send to Back and Send Backward on objects already at the back, and Send to Current Layer on objects already on top of the current layer. - Ungroup, Release Compound Path and Release Clipping Mask with none of their objects selected, and Expand Shape with no live shape selected. - Lock with every selected object already locked, Hide with every one already hidden, Unlock All with nothing locked and Show All with nothing hidden. - object.setProps with the values the objects already have, or with no object. - object.setLiveShape with the values the shape already has: a polygon's sides, angle, radius or equal sides, or a side length that gives exactly its current radius; an ellipse's pie, including Invert Pie on a whole ellipse; and a corner radius or kind that the corners already have. These commands now return without editing the document, and Align and Distribute count a move of 1e-9 pt or less on both axes as none. Such a call records no undo step, keeps the step to redo and leaves the document unmodified. In these cases Ungroup no longer resets the selection, and Release Compound Path, Unlock All and Show All no longer empty it. A Transform with a copy of no object keeps the selection. Lock and Hide still deselect the objects. A Nudge by 0 no longer expands a live shape whose anchors are direct-selected. The replies have the same form as before. An identity transform still sets what Transform Again repeats. The journal still records each call, so the Actions panel records it as before. When every value given to Set Bounds is the current one, it now applies the identity transform instead of the transform computed from those values, which can differ from the identity by a rounding error on a rotated object or with Use Preview Bounds. When a drag comes back to its start, the identity preview no longer edits the document. Session::preview now advances the revision when it undoes the previous preview, so views redraw that drag. The undo and redo row of docs/mcp.md now notes that many calls that change nothing record no undo step, so undo after one undoes the step before it.
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VectorCraft Roadmap
Stage: alpha · next: beta, ~13 points (ready for real work ~62% → ~75%, and reliable .ai exchange) and ~170–270 h away
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Change: minor (Effect › Brush Strokes landed: Photoshop-style filters 28 of 57, raster effects 40% → 48%) · Target: Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
VectorCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Adobe Illustrator workflow. It runs
on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and the web (WASM), and agents can drive all of it over MCP, the CLI and a JSON
control channel. This page is the summary; the evidence is in docs/target-app-parity.md
and the work list in docs/gaps.md.
Why alpha: the core workflows exist end to end (drawing and path editing, Pathfinder, paint and appearance,
type, SVG/PDF/EPS, print, export) and feature depth is ~75%, but a professional can't yet switch: Illustrator's
own .ai files open with a wrong layer structure in real cases and can't be saved back with Illustrator's
editing data, the interaction details have never been checked side by side, and some machines fail to start the
app. Beta needs those closed (the beta list in gaps.md). It passes the core-workflow
gate: all six core workflows (path drawing and editing, paint and style, type, layers/artboards/export, print
production, file exchange) work end to end on macOS with save and reopen, and only the last is partial, without
blocking it (Alpha gate).
Headline numbers
| Value | Kind | |
|---|---|---|
| Feature breadth (Illustrator's menu items, tools, effects, formats exist) | ~88% | measured in part: menu items 348/375 wired (92.8%), tools 89/92, Illustrator effects 44/50, Photoshop effects 28/57, 3D 1/4 (initial Revolve) |
| Feature depth (weighted by use, scored by behaviour) | ~75% | estimated |
| To beta | ~170–270 h one agent · ~50–80 h with 4–6 agents | estimated |
| To full parity | ~360–590 h one agent · ~95–165 h with 4–6 agents | estimated |
Readiness by audience (all estimated; method in target-app-parity.md):
| Audience | Ready % | Opus 5.5 agent hours to ~95% (one agent) | With 4–6 agents | Work that dominates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Illustrator (ready for real work; decides the stage) | ~62% (57–67%) | ~340–560 h | ~95–160 h | the mainstream work below, plus 3D (50–85 h), raster effects (24–40 h), advanced type (20–28 h), generative AI (30–60 h), localization (70–110 h) and ecosystem |
| Mainstream illustrator | ~65% (60–70%) | ~230–380 h | ~65–110 h | the interaction-fidelity pass (60–90 h), hardening and QA (30–50 h), stability (20–35 h), performance budgets (15–25 h), .ai exchange (10–20 h), the remaining depth of the everyday areas |
| Essentials user | ~75% (70–80%) | ~60–105 h | ~25–45 h | launch and stability on Windows (20–35 h), in-app help and onboarding (8–15 h), basic QA (10–15 h), Shape Builder regions (4–8 h), UI polish |
Hours are Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock hours, calibrated from this repo's merged-PR timestamps (e.g. 0.7–1.2 h per
Photoshop-style filter, ~0.8 h per medium feature); see calibration.
The installed Illustrator was not inspected: the clean-room rule in AGENTS.md forbids it, so
everything is measured from our code against Illustrator's public documentation.
By dimension
| Dimension | % | One agent (h) | Doc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Features (depth) | 75% | 220–360 | target-app-parity.md |
| UI/UX fidelity | 55% | 70–110 | ui-parity.md |
| File formats | 75% | 15–30 | file-format-parity.md |
| Hardware (GPU, pen, touch, displays) | 35% | 25–45 | hardware-parity.md |
| Localization (12 key languages) | 54% (measured) | 70–110 | localization-parity.md |
| Performance | ~60% | 15–25 | gaps.md › G15 |
| Stability | ~60% | 30–50 | gaps.md › G10 |
| Platforms | 80% | 15–25 | gaps.md › G8 |
| Ecosystem and plug-ins | 15% | 30–60 | gaps.md › G17 |
| AI features (generative) | 0% | 30–60 + owner decision | gaps.md › G18 |
| Agent automation | beyond Illustrator | — | mcp.md |
The dimension hours overlap (feature rows hold some UI, format and AI work), so they don't add up to the total.
Features
| Area | % | One agent (h) |
|---|---|---|
| Selection, transform & align | 85% | 4–6 |
| Drawing tools | 85% | 8–13 |
| Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 80% | 4–8 |
| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 92% | 4–7 |
| Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 88% | 8–15 |
| Appearance, transparency, graphic styles, masks | 97% | 1–2 |
| Live vector effects | 85% | 6–10 |
| Raster effects (Effect Gallery) — effects-parity.md | 48% | 24–40 |
| 3D and Materials | ~8% | 50–85 |
| Type core — type-parity.md | 80% | 14–19 |
| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type) | 50% | 20–28 |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 85% | 6–10 |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 75% | 5–8 |
| Layers, artboards, document setup | 78% | 5–8 |
| View & navigation | 70% | 9–14 |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping | 80% | 4–7 |
| File formats — file-format-parity.md | 75% | 10–20 |
| Export for Screens, Asset Export, slices | 85% | 2–4 |
| Print, colour management, separations | 80% | 2–4 |
| Automation (Actions, Variables, scripting) | 60% | 8–14 |
| UI chrome (panels, Properties, preferences) | 80% | 13–20 |
| Libraries, Links, Package | 82% | 2–3 |
| Generative AI | 0% | 30–60 |
Weights, evidence and the missing items per area: target-app-parity.md.
Languages
| Language | Code | Status | Translated |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | en |
full | 100% |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-hans |
partial (messages in English) | 85% |
| Spanish | es |
full | 100% |
| Hindi | hi |
none | 0% |
| Arabic | ar |
none (no right-to-left interface) | 0% |
| French | fr |
full | 100% |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br |
partial | 68% |
| Indonesian | id |
none | 0% |
| Japanese | ja |
full | 100% |
| German | de |
full | 98% |
| Korean | ko |
none | 0% |
| Vietnamese | vi |
none | 0% |
Also shipped: Traditional Chinese (partial, 80%), Italian, Russian and Ukrainian (full), Czech (menus only). No catalog has had a native speaker's review. Details: localization-parity.md.
Upcoming
Ranked; detail in docs/roadmap.md and docs/gaps.md.
- Interaction-fidelity pass (G1), tool by tool from ui-parity.md: 60–90 h.
.aifiles from real users (G9): layer structure, guides, speed: 10–20 h.- Launch and stability on real machines (G10): 20–35 h.
- Core-tool correctness (G11: Shape Builder regions, Asset Export borders): 8–15 h.
- Raster effects (G2) alongside: 29 filters and the Effect Gallery, 24–40 h.
- Then: type core and advanced type (G4), the Illustrator 2026 additions (G13), 3D (G3).
Progress log
| Date | What landed |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | Effect › Brush Strokes: Accented Edges, Angled Strokes, Crosshatch, Dark Strokes, Ink Outlines, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, Sumi-e (G2). Command parameters from agents and files checked before anything changes (paint, place, cuts, dashes, crop, asset ids, anchors, paths, distort; #984–#999); command dialogs keep whole numbers whole, so Create Object Mosaic takes the tiles typed (#1000); stepper arrows take Shift (×10) and Ctrl/Cmd (÷10) like the arrow keys (#991). Exports and Rasterize supersample Art Optimized edges, so shapes meeting edge to edge leave no seam (#983). Character and paragraph styles take leading, kerning, mojikumi and the other attributes left out at their defaults (#1001). Drawing, typing and pasting with no layer shown and unlocked is refused instead of adding art to a hidden or locked layer (#1002). MCP add_text gives type on or in a path the colour asked for (#1003). MCP screenshot of a connected app renders the artboard asked for (#1004). vectorcraft-cli run ends quietly when its reader closes early (#1005). Select › All on Active Artboard selects on the artboard made active, not always the first (#1006). Reverse Gradient keeps off-centre midpoints, mirrored (#1007). A polar grid with no radial dividers draws none (#1008). Use Precise Cursors also covers the Pen's join pointer (#1009). SVGs with one absolute and one unitless root side import at their size, unstretched (#1010). DXF US survey inches, yards and miles open at their size and name (#1011). A file placed into a document with no other links follows its first change even while the app sits idle (#1031). PDF import keeps the style a font name says when the file doesn't embed the font (#1023). Shift selects ruler guides and art together, and Delete removes both (#1022). Open filled paths are hit by their fill on every side, the rotate cursor bows around the corner it is at, the flip icons match their flips, the Color Picker previews on the selection, and Properties › Transform reaches Scale Corners and Scale Strokes & Effects (#1036). Offset Path and the other booleans finish on outlines where the sweep used to loop until memory ran out (linesweeper 0.5, #1028). Floating panel groups stack into sets that move together, collapse to their tabs and dock as extra dock columns that scroll (#1020). Ruler guides live on layers: listed in the Layers panel, shown, hidden, locked, duplicated, merged and deleted with their layer, and moved between layers (#1021). A .ai whose editing data uses global process colours (Xk/XK) or pattern fills keeps its sublayers: the colours come in as global swatches at their tint, the patterns as pattern swatches (#1025). A .ai in PostScript form opens through its layers, read from the program itself, also when it names the prolog defining its operators without including it, as Rhino and other CAD apps write it (#1027). A fill or stroke chosen while the Type tool has characters selected colours just those characters (#1063). Scaled type shows its scaled font size, leading, baseline shift and horizontal scale in the Character panel, and a size typed there is the size you get (#1034). Character panel menu › Proportional Metrics sets Japanese and Chinese full-width glyphs on the font's proportional widths in horizontal type (#966). Align, Distribute, Move, Arrange, Lock, Hide, Ungroup and other Object commands that would change nothing no longer record an undo step or mark the document changed (#1060). |
| 2026-10-10 | Initial live Revolve (Effect › 3D and Materials, #846, #605), in its own three-d crate. Progress docs re-measured and restructured to the craftrules standard (this page, docs/target-app-parity.md, gaps.md, ui-parity.md, the format, hardware, localization, effects and type checklists). Same day: v0.8.0; Effect › Distort, Pixelate and Texture filters (13); German interface; Variables (data merge); Graph Type value axes and tick marks; restart when the first frame never reaches the screen (#964) |
| 2026-10-09 | Radial Blur, Smart Blur, Unsharp Mask (gap 2 begins); 340 commits, the busiest day |
| 2026-10-08 | v0.5.0–v0.7.0; community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, Layers, Artboards, Japanese composition, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages, saved selections |
| 2026-10-07 | v0.4.0; issue fixes; Layers panel rework |
| 2026-10-06 | M8 transform and distort fidelity pass (M8.1–M8.20) |
| 2026-10-05 | M4 files done (M4.14–M4.98); M3 paint and appearance done (92 tasks over two days) |
| 2026-10-02 | First weighted parity estimate (22 areas); look and feel measured against public screenshots |
| 2026-10-01 | Renamed from DrawCraft to VectorCraft |
| 2026-09-30 | Repository history begins |
The full pre-standard record of what landed is kept in docs/roadmap.md.
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Method aligned with the standard, no new evidence: full ready for real work is the additive weighted sum, ~62%; hours per audience; beta ~13 points away |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added the essentials-user readiness score (~75%) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Ready for real work re-examined against the issue tracker and user feedback: 50% → 55% (full), 65% mainstream added; see target-app-parity.md |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Applied the core-workflow gate (docs/roadmap.md › Alpha gate): passes, stage stays alpha |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Re-measured against Illustrator 2026 (30.x) from code counts, 71 open issues and public docs; stage set to alpha; moved the parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" to docs/target-app-parity.md, the gap list to docs/gaps.md, milestones to docs/roadmap.md, the .ai scope to docs/file-format-parity.md |
| 2026-10-05 | major | Honest assessment by dimension and the prioritized gap list |
| 2026-10-02 | major | First 22-area weighted parity estimate |